In message <20060516212707.GI65555_at_funkthat.com>, John-Mark Gurney writes: >Maxim Sobolev wrote this message on Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:24 -0700: >> Well, in my particular case I would like to experiment with >> dynamic exporting of shared ELF objects from the kernel into >> userspace. md(4) seems like a good fit, but dlopen(3) uses >> mmap, so that it doesn't work OOB. There can be other uses >> as well. > >Doing a seperate cdev that implements mmap is quite easy... > >For something like that it seems like you wouldn't need any of md's >disk device features, would you? I agree, md(4) will only get in the way of what is necessary. Look at the adlink driver, it is much closer to what you want. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Tue May 16 2006 - 19:30:38 UTC
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